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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Instructional leadership is critical to school success. It included curriculum development and implementation, staff development, and instructional supervision. The course will deal with curriculum trends, new approaches to organizing schools, professional learning communities, instructional methodologies, and research on improving student performance. (20 hours embedded field experience required.)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to guide the prospective school principal in developing the skills, knowledge, and dispositions found to be vital to communicating effectively with all school constituent individuals and groups, and fundamental to initiating, implementing, managing, and evaluating effective communication strategies and practices with and between all parties in the schooling process. (20 hours embedded field experience required.)
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3.00 Credits
As schools have evolved, so have state and federal regulations to guide and direct them. In this course, student will acquire knowledge of the laws and regulations that govern schools and apply this knowledge to identify legal issues, foresee potential liability, and act to reduce risks. Policies reflect the laws, regulations, and guidelines that define the purposes, parameters, and specific actions that establish the responsibilities of the individual and the institution. This course will examine policy-making and policy implementation in relation to schools. (20 hours embedded field experience required.)
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the selection, employment, orientation, supervision, development, and evaluation of both professional and non-professional personnel. The course will emphasize the role of the principal and curriculum supervisor in professional development. It will also address the role of school administrators in collective bargainging and contract administration. (20 hours embedded field experience required)
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3.00 Credits
This course will deal with both the fiscal and facilities resources of a school and their proper management. Site-based management will be a part of the course. The principal's role in school finances and the budgeting process will be emphasized. Assessment of need, establishing priorities, providing justification, and the accounting for expenditures of the budget will be considered. Assessing facilities, making assignments, overseeing housekeeping and maintenance, and maintaining an environment conducive to teaching and learning will be a part of the knowledge and skills presented in this course. (20 hours embedded field experience required.)
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3.00 Credits
Education leaders both formally and informally set direction for schools, programs, and services. The may hold such positions as classroom teachers, principals, supervisors, coordinators, and directors. Leaders advance a vision, a purpose, and an agenda. This course will focus on the critical elements and skills needed in effective educational leaders and change agents. (20 hours embedded field experience.)
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3.00 Credits
This course will review topics that are currently critical educational issues within the general public and within professional educational circles. Educational reform in the state, US, and internationally will be compared and analyzed. Attention will be given to accountability systems, the federal role, teacher and principal evaluation systems, and special interest groups. (20 hours embedded field experience required.)
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3.00 Credits
Designed for educators who recognize the significance that issues of multiculturalism and diversity play in impacting the educational experience of an increasingly diverse population. In this course, students will examine how issues of class, culture, ethnicity, language, gender, etc. are represented in educational settings.
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3.00 Credits
This course will require students to demonstrate knowledge of and competence in applying the fundamental concepts of teaching students ages 3-21 with cognitive, behavioral and/or physical health disabilities. This will include philosophical, historical and legal foundations of education for students with disabilities, current identification criteria, legal and educational definitions, etiology, incidence and prevalence figures as well as cognitive, behavioral and physical characteristics. Field experience required.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides education professionals with the skills and techniques to effectively communicate with students, colleagues, administrators, parents, and the community. The study of communication requires an examination of a wide range of human skills, which includes: speaking, listenin, writing, reading, verbal and non-verbal behavior, and the effective use of communication tools available through the media an the internet.
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